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When I think NBC Sports, I think first of Dick Enberg. Especially when the network had the Orange Bowl, Pre-SNF NFL, Wimbledon, and baseball. Also, he's a Michigan native--his family had a grocery store in Mount Clemens and he graduated from Central Michigan. I'll personally always remember him calling the Lions-Jets 1997 game where Barry Sanders hits 2,000 rushing yards for the season (ironically the game took place 20 years ago yesterday).

Ahh...Tony's Diner. I remember going as a kid and there was about a 30-minute line to be seated (this was well over 20 years so I have no idea what it's like now).

As for Frankenmuth, my parents take out-of-town family and friends up there to see Bronners and buy the random Armenian Christmas ornament they have in stock. I'd probably do the same thing and take an out-of-town friend up there just to take a look around and eat at Zehnders.

I was an usher, or more specifically a "Guest Services Agent," at the Palace during the summers of 2000 and 2001 and the majority of people I worked with were great. Sometimes they had to be hardasses during concerts though with people sneaking into sections they weren't supposed to be, smoking in the arena, blocking the aisles dancing, and similar stuff like that. The two toughest concerts I worked there were Jimmy Page and the Black Crowes, the Up in Smoke Tour with Snoop Dogg/Eminem/Ice Cube...fun, but crowd control was a challenge. Same employees obviously worked at Pine Knob (Ozzfest was always difficult and working it was a mandatory event).

But the Pistons memories are the best...all the playoff games I attended from 2002 to 2005 will stand out the most, especially Game 3 of the 2004 Finals.

My Art of Flim class watched The King of Comedy during the Fall 2001 semester...highly recommended. Jerry Lewis + Robert Deniro directed by Martin Scorsese. Sidenote: His last film came out last year called Max Rose. He also popularized the use of video assist systems during filmmaking.

I had to Google to see why this was trending/notable and I guess it has to do with the silly excited expressions being mistaken for another kind of, umm, "excitement." That combined with player names Shaq Vann and Brogan Roback and it's a recipe of snickers and laughs.

Wilkins was absolutely putrid. I lost my voice a few times at games yelling at some of his missed calls or ticky-tack stuff. Piotrowski was alright IIRC. I also didn't understand the Shegos love either, but I didn't realize they were brothers. The games I saw a Shegos officiate the calls seemed to favor the opposition.

The Horror was the fall from the cliff (a fall that lasted until Harbaugh was hired if you ask me...even with the MSU game ending) but I would say everything bottomed out with the Minnesota/Shane Morris/Dave Brandon Concussion debacle. That was unacceptable, awful, embarrassing and unprofessional on how it was handled.

Ara and Bo were close. Bo, who served as Ara's assistant at Northwestern said the coaching job Ara did during NW's winless 1957 season was the best he had seen because he kept the team focused and united. RIP to the best Armenian-American football coach that lived.

Crawling and Hybrid Theory came out during my freshman year at Michigan and I had a feeling the bad was going to hit it big. Sure enough, I couldn't stop listening to Meteora when that came out in 2003.

Also saw the band perform at Ozzfest in 2001 at Pine Knob...wish I had seen them again since because I'm not sure how the band recovers from this (especially since they were supposed to start a tour this month).

The only two memories of Johnny Sears I have are his App State debacle and his awful play when he and the backups came in vs Ball State in 2006 (He was burned on the Cardinals 54-yard TD bomb). Ball State clawed back to the point that Carr had to send out the starters again to make sure the game was won.

Roger Moore was the first James Bond I knew with Octopussy being the first of the series' films that I watched. I guess as a kid I preferred him over Connery and even Dalton, but he just played the role differently with his style and the way he was comfortable doing it, and to me is fine.

And yes, he was also The Saint...but he was also Beau Maverick in Maverick (taking over for James Garner when he left the show), and one of The Persuaders with Tony Curtis.

This news floored me this morning. I loved his work with Audioslave and he was also the first American-born musician to compose/sing a James Bond theme song for Casino Royale. His latest composition was the theme song to The Promise (which was in and out of theaters fairly quickly a month ago).

Exactly. IMHO, Luc Robitaille is the hero of the movie because his last-second goal forces OT, delaying the mayhem. I guess the only saving grace of the film is that those were the actual hockey players playing, from Tony Amonte and Chris Chelios to Ken Wregget and Robitaille.

To me, Powers Boothe will always be the bad guy in Sudden Death whose motive for wanting to blow up the old Igloo in Pittsburgh (because the VP was visiting for Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final) I still don't understand 22 years later.

A lot of the usual suspects already posted above, so to be different I'd say Frozen Four 2008 in Denver vs. Notre Dame, where we were the overall No. 1 seed in the tournament and ND was the underdog as the No. 4 team in the West region. We got smoked out of the gate down 3-0 after the first period, but crawled back to tie the game, only to go down a goal again before forcing OT. I really thought we'd win that game once we got into OT, but we lost 5-4. I had to witness a ND vs. BC championship game live which was ehh for me and my friend from BU.

Additional fun fact: The field at Wien Stadium where Columbia plays is named after Patriots owner Robert Kraft. Interesting his pro team is in the upper echelon of the NFL, yet his alma mater where his name graces the field is awful.

The link I posted discussed it: He was in the middle of contract negotiations that had turned tenuous and CBS Sports had new leadership. They canned him with a couple months left on his contract but still let him call the title game (awkward...).

That riveting Georgia vs. Kentucky SEC basketball showdown at Rupp Arena. ESPN is trying to spin it as he's going to end his career where he called the classic Villanova-Georgetown 1985 title game (Yes, it was in Lexington).

Should also note: CBS canned him on the eve of the 1990 NCAA national championship game (UNLV-Duke) on April 1 and everyone thought it was a joke because it was April Fools (only it wasn't). Looks like that was over a contract dispute plus new CBS Sports management. Link